Perfect Scale: MAN 630 L2AE

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Perfect Scale: MAN 630 L2AE

In 1955 the year in which the German Bundeswehr became alive as part of the West European “NATO” there was a huge demand of all terrain cargo trucks.

The decision was made to order with MAN Germany almost 21000 5to 630L2 cargo trucks in different variants and special purpose vehicles. The used and common typ was MAN 630 L2AE. It was built from 1961 to 1972 and remained in service until the late 1990ies.

The kit comes in a large cardboard box , about the size of typical plastic kit box. The resin parts are packed in zip-bags and are well protected by styrofoam chips and shredded paper. A sheet of PE-Parts, a sheet of decals clear plastic for the window and plastic tarpaulin is included.

The kit features a full engine, open or close doors and hatches and a separate engine cover.

The kit consists in 230 resin parts. One of the instruction sheets contains a list of all included parts. Each part is shown on drawing and is also named.

The assembly instruction in German and English contains some general assembly guidelines and exploded diagrams where the parts go to.

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The resin parts are attached to casting blocks. Attachment points are quite small and they are very easy to remove even for anyone with minimum experience in working with resin kits. On some parts there are deliberately some additional resin pins and plates added to help in casting process and these need to be removed, too.

All parts have crisp and very well defined details on them.

The split of the parts in the kit is similar to any typical plastic kits with frame engine, separate suspension and shock absorbers, wheels. A lot of small detail parts for the downside of the loading area is provided, including nicely cast pioneer tools.